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User profile for user: s0undz
s0undz Author
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Cannot Turn On FileVault

Hi,

I tried to turn on FileVault, but get this error:

You cannot turn on FileVault to protect the home folder of this user account. The home folder is located on a volume that is not a Mac OS Extended format volume.

My disk has just one partition mounted at / and the file system is formated as case-sensitive journaled HFS+. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jimmy

MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.3), It's Silver

Posted on Jun 29, 2008 4:56 PM

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User profile for user: Kappy
Kappy
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Posted on Jul 8, 2008 1:42 PM

The error is valid. You cannot use a case-sensitive filesystem with File Vault. You will need to convert the drive to standard Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Unfortunately, this requires reformatting the drive so you will need to make a bootable backup before implementing the change.
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User profile for user: Kappy
Kappy
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Jul 8, 2008 1:42 PM in response to s0undz

The error is valid. You cannot use a case-sensitive filesystem with File Vault. You will need to convert the drive to standard Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Unfortunately, this requires reformatting the drive so you will need to make a bootable backup before implementing the change.
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Cannot Turn On FileVault

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